The pater familias seems to have had in mind nothing short of a printing dynasty, or at least a comfortable principality.
It is the woman's role to nurture the future pater familias.
Pater instead sees substitution as the coalescence of nasality and place, a one-step fusion rather than a two-step process.
Pater's use of metonym and euphemism when handling the violent spectacles makes this point with his characteristic indirection.
By contrast, he sometimes claims, as he does here, that pater nalistic and moralistic restrictions of liberty are never justified (cf. iv 3, 4, 6; v 2).
Pater is concerned with the disposition of his reader only to the extent he may acknowledge it as the normative view, then depart from it.
Pater "takes a common adjective of plenitude, cancels it, and presents only its trace as supreme value" (113).
Pater was a significant force here, while the others represented elements of more conventional nineteenth-century values.
